Spotlight
Welcome to the English Department
Whether you’re searching for a major or thinking about an MA or PhD program, the Ohio University Department of English offers a wide variety of educational and professional development opportunities to help you prepare for the future.
Graduate Program
Our graduate program in English offers nationally competitive graduate stipends with opportunities to teach a wide range of courses. Graduate students receive generous travel funding and have the opportunity for editorial fellowships and service experience on New Ohio Review, Quarter after Eight, and Brevity.
Two of our current creative writing PhD students have published award-winning books of poetry with university presses, while many other graduate students are publishing poems, stories, and essays in literary magazines.
Graduate Students in our literature and rhetoric and composition tracks have the opportunity to help organize and participate in our Humor in English Studies conference and read in our quarterly Chestnut Reading Series. Many students at both the MA and PhD level have published articles and presented at conferences on subjects ranging from new media rhetoric to gender issues in Chaucer.
Our program is small by design, and we have enjoyed tremendous success in the past five years placing our PhD graduates into tenure-track teaching jobs, while many of our MA graduates have moved on to top MFA or PhD programs elsewhere.
Undergraduate Program
Our undergraduates choose an emphasis in creative writing, literature, or secondary education and have the option of completing a senior thesis as part of the honors tutorial college.
There are also opportunities to serve on the editorial staff of Sphere, our undergraduate-run literary journal, and many English majors participate in the University’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honors society. Successful graduates go on to law school, graduate school, public school teaching, editing, publishing, and more. For further information, click here.
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The Department of English
Our department includes faculty distributed among four program areas: Literary Studies, Creative Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, and English Education. We offer doctoral degrees in literary studies, creative writing, and composition/rhetoric, and a master’s degree in English, serving approximately sixty graduate students in any given year. On the undergraduate level, we serve close to six hundred undergraduate majors, including almost two hundred integrated language arts majors enrolled in the College of Education.
Read our mission statement.
News
Carrie Oeding receives Houston Writing Fellowship
Carrie Oeding has accepted a two‐year award as a Houston Writing Fellow in the English Department at the University of Houston. read more >>
Ayesha Hardison receives BMRC Fellowship
The Black Metropolis Research Consortium is pleased to announce that Ayesha Hardison is one of six recipients of the BMRC’s Fellows Program, which provides support for outstanding researchers of all disciplines from across the country. read more >>
Kelley Evans’ poem published in Her Mark 2010
Kelley Evans’s poem “Winter Walk III” will be published in Her Mark 2010, the art and poetry publication of Women Made Gallery in Chicago. The issue is due out in early August. read more >>
Student News
Announcement: New issue of Sphere available
The new issue of the student journal Sphere is now available. read more >>
Members of Sigma Tau Delta receive honors
Jennifer Dorsey, Krista Baddour and Matt Townsley were recently honored by the International English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta. read more >>